Primary subjects | Secondary subjects | Projected features in verbal metaphors | Projected features in pictorial metaphors |
Oesophagus | Tunnel | Tube that connects, a passageway through | The bus drives out of a dark tunnel |
Food through oesophagus to stomach | Toothpaste in a tube | Squeeze, push | The section of a tube with a black spot at the lower end moving upward. |
Intestine | Tube | Coiled up, hollow, long | Coiled-up, long |
Villi | Fingers | Physical similarity; Tiny Finger-like structures | Layers of finger-like structures laying together |
Heart | House | Multiple chambers inside | 4 chambers |
Chambers | Pump | Hollow; to move fluid or gas by pressure or suction | Chambers with arrows indicating the moving direction |
Body | Cycle | Blood circulates inside the body | Blood vessels moving all through the body |